Last week’s top ten was threatened, but outside of Nebraska, wasn’t shook up too much. All I can figure is that the Big Ten doesn’t want a team in the top ten.

My ballot this week:

Alabama

Arkansas

Boise State

Clemson

LSU*

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Oregon

Stanford

Texas

COMMENTS

Maybe there simply isn’t a tenth-best team in the country right now.

In the end, I went with Texas because the Horns made me hold my nose less than any other team I could put in that spot.

That being said, I have this sinking feeling that we’re overrating the Big 12 as a whole right now – especially after watching a fairly feeble Kansas State offense rip up Okie State’s defense.

Other schools under consideration: Kansas State, Georgia (I can’t believe I just typed that), Georgia Tech (ditto), Houston (couldn’t you guys have played just one decent team this year?) and Southern Cal.

It took 35 minutes to put the ballot together, although it seemed like a lot longer. 34 minutes and 23 seconds of that were spent on finding a number ten team. Approximately.

Finally got on. differed with you on Chokla and Tex. Put in VaTech and Georgia. It’s called ole cootish optimism. Think we can beat most of the ones in the poll in the correct circumstances. That statement would be blasphemy 4wks ago.

What’s your personal test for admittance into your top ten? Are you grading the body of work? Or are you grading how strong those teams are right now? If you consider both, which one carries more weight?

Great question. I have asked this in the past and recall the Senator didn’t want to set guidelines for voters. I think this question, and the one about whether polls should represent how good teams actually are, or be guided by the W/L record, should be set in advance so we know what the vote represents. Big difference when voters are using different criteria to compile their list.

A three way tie in the West opens the door to chaos-weird tiebreakers having to do with teams being in the Top 5 in the BCS poll or not being in the Top 5, etc. Just wait and see. The deck is being stacked for a Bama-LSU rematch in the BCSNCG. If that happens the SEC gets $21 Million x 2= $42 Million. If Arkansas beats LSU at least half that is gone. If Bama then gets in the SECCG on the tiebreaker and UGA beats Bama the other half is gone. If LSU wins out and plays UGA in the SECCG and UGA beats them at least half the money disappears that way, too. None of these scenarios will be allowed to happen by Slime..er..Slive and his SEC referee minions.

Texas is still a fraud…more similar to UGA last year than this year. Don’t think you should have given them the nod. Just give Houston a little love until the end of the season…the beat who they play. All they can do.

Quote Of The Day

“It's definitely different not knowing exactly who it's gonna be, but in a way, I feel like that's good,” he said. “One of my old coaches from Valdosta told me that competition is one of the best coaches. And I feel like, as well as each one of those three guys is performing, they're not gonna do anything but make each other better.” -- Jay Rome, The Red & Black, 3/25/15